Dr. Nilesh Patel

One of the main messages of President Obama's 2012 campaign was that waste in our health care system must be reduced in order to decrease the system's cost burden. Clearly, that message resonated with the American public, and understandably so. However, while this paradigm shift has the potential to be a positive development, there are a few issues that should be considered before the law is fully phased in. Specifically, there are several policies that I hope the new law will ultimately embrace, all of them focusing on a preventative, outpatient and patient-focused medicine model.